The best Quotes and Sayings about Stories

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

True love stories never have endings.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

One can believe in a story without believing it happened.

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

I confess, I need stories to understand the world.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Some people believe if we repeat stories often enough they become real. They make us who we are. That can be scary.

The more you read, the better you’re going to become as a storyteller.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

A good story never dies.